[Openicc] profile distribution / Adobe / ECI

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 30 May 2005, Gerhard Fuernkranz wrote:
>> As food for thought, last time I read the Adobe color profile license,
>> it seemed to me that distributing the profiles within image files
>> would be perfectly legitimate.  It is not particularly difficult to
>> extract profiles from image files.  In fact, with
>> GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick you can specify an image file where you
>> would specify the name of a profile, and any profiles in the image
>> will be used just as if the image file was a profile.
>
> So you suggest not to distribute the profiles, but "example images" instead.
> Interesting idea ...

Even more interesting is that these "example images" can be true 
example images with the image pixels properly in the colorspace so 
they can be used for testing as well.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/